Five things you should know about plastic

What happens to the plastic we use once we recycle it? What happens to the plastic that isn’t recycled? Plastic packaging and products are everywhere, it would be hard to exist without your plastic containers for sunscreen or shampoo. But what happens when the plastic we throw away ends up in landfill, ocean beds and marine life?

Here’s five things you should know and think about before you reach for that next tub of margarine:

1- The plastics industry uses the same amount of oil as the aviation industry.

2- Every minute a single truck load of plastic is dumped into the ocean.

3- By 2050, the use of plastic is set to quadruple.

4- Only five per cent of plastic is actually recycled.

5- Creating more innovative ways to recycle plastic is proving extremely difficult in the plastics sector.